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The Future of Networking: Beyond Cat6, Finding Mentors, Feeding Relationships, Furthering Your Career
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The Future of Networking:
Beyond Cat6, Finding Mentors, Feeding
Relationships, Furthering Your Career
Amy H. Lewis | @CommsNinja
Director of Influence Marketing, NSBU
February 27, 2018
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Community builder, org
chart enthusiast, Geek
Whisperer, closet techie,
@CommsNinja
Who am I?
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Finding Mentors
Who are they and where are they hiding?
Who has a career you
admire?
• Job title
• Work they do
• Public happiness
Who has strengths you
want to work toward?
• Career progression or
navigation
• Salary wizard
• Public speaking
• Job specific skills
How structured are you?
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Feeding Relationships
Because they don’t feed themselves
Do you give or just take?
Set calendar reminders, form good habits!
• Share content with everyone once a week
• Say thank you to content creators you follow, ask questions,
offer feedback
• Celebrate birthdays
• Let people know they matter to you
What do you do to build and maintain relationships?
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Furthering Your Career
What have you done for you lately?
Become an active part of your community
• Move from attendee to coordinator, speaker, blogger!
Consider breadth and not just depth of expertise
Meet new people, learn new things
Editor's Notes
- Does the person have to know they’re your mentor?
- But with every rule there’s an exception.
- With every rule, there’s an exception. She can be a secret mentor or someone you learn from, but separate the two concepts.
- Clicking accept on LinkedIn is not enough.
- Use today to learn not just the technology, but more about the people around you.
- But only 5 cats so far, so . . .
- You were promised cat6, here he is.